Get ready for Rift Rivals

How will your region stack up against its fiercest esports adversaries? It’s time to set the record straight at our new cross-regional event, Rift Rivals. Rift Rivals will be held across the world during July 3-9.

How will your region stack up against its fiercest adversaries? It’s time to settle the score at our brand new cross-regional event: Rift Rivals.

What is Rift Rivals?

Rift Rivals will be held across the world during July 3-9. The event will pit regional rivals against each other in grudge matches for glory and bragging rights.

Five tournaments will pit teams from all 13 regions with their closest rivals and re-open old wounds as they face their nemesis on the Rift. Each tournament will vary in numbers of invited teams, venues, and format - but every event will pair one region against each other, so you won’t see any games between teams from the same region (no Telecom Wars or the Battle of European mascots).

Teams were selected for Rift Rivals based on the most recently completed split (Spring or Split 1) rankings and will be seeded accordingly for the start of the event. For example, Europe’s G2 Esports will be seeded as EU #1 at the start of Rift Rivals: NA vs. EU. Read on for more details about format at each of the tournaments.

What are the rivalries? Formats?

Latin America North vs. Brazil vs. Latin America South

City: Santiago, Chile

Venue: CLS Studio

Dates: July 5-8

Teams:

Latin America North (LLN)

Lyon Gaming

Just Toys Havoks

Brazil (CBLOL)

Keyd Stars

RED Canids

Latin America South (CLS)

Isurus Gaming

Furious Gaming

North America vs. Europe

City: Berlin, Germany

Venue: EU LCS Studio

Dates: July 6-8

Teams:

North America (NA LCS)

TSM

Cloud9

Phoenix1

Europe (EU LCS)

G2 Esports

Unicorns of Love

Fnatic

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) vs. Turkey

City: Moscow, Russian Federation

Venue: LCL Studio

Dates: July 6-9

Teams:

CIS (LCL)

Virtus.pro

Vaevictis Esports

M19

Vega Squadron

Turkey (TCL)

SuperMassive eSports

Oyunfor.CREW

1907 Fenerbahçe Espor

Team AURORA

Southeast Asia vs. Oceania vs. Japan

City: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dates: July 3-6

Teams:

Southeast Asia (GPL)

GIGABYTE Marines

Ascension Gaming

Mineski

Oceania (OPL)

Dire Wolves

Legacy

Sin Gaming

Japan (LJL)

Detonation Gaming

Rampage

Unsold Stuff Gaming

Korea vs. LMS vs. China

City: Kaohsiung

Venue: Kaohsiung Exhibition Center

Dates: July 6-9

Teams:

Korea (LCK)

SK Telecom T1

Samsung Galaxy

KT Rolster

MVP

LMS (LMS)

Flash Wolves

ahq e-Sports Club

J Team

Machi

China (LPL)

Team WE

Royal Never Give Up

Edward Gaming

OMG

How do I watch?

Below are the languages that the broadcast will be available in for each of the events. All of the Rift Rivals events will be available on Lolesports.

Latin America North vs. Brazil vs. Latin America South

Portuguese

Spanish

North America vs. Europe

English

We’re working with European broadcast partners to get the EU vs. NA event in more languages, we’ll confirm the languages and how to tune-in on EU Lolesports closer to the event.

CIS vs. Turkey

Russian

Turkish

Southeast Asia vs. Oceania vs. Japan

English

Japanese

Vietnamese

Thai

Indonesian

Korea vs. LMS vs. China

Traditional Chinese

Simplified Chinese

Korean

English

Vietnamese

Thai

Indonesian

Where can I learn more about Rift Rivals?

Stay tuned to Lolesports for more the information about the event including the full match schedule and ticket information.